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Primitive art in Egypt (1905)

Capart, Jean, 1877-1947, Johns, Agnes Sophia (Griffith), Mrs., 1850-, Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919, former owner. DSI-F · London : H. Grevel · leaf 139

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e developed, after the recollection of that which they originally represented was lost, and eventually the decorator was satisfied to trace two or three enormous spirals on his vase by way of ornamenta- tion2 (Fig. 86). This ornamentation has been wrongly interpreted by several observers, who… … Other vases — and this is merely a repetition of what I have previously stated — are decorated with lines representing the covering of plaited straw with which the vase was covered, a covering sometimes loose, at other times tightly twisted.5 It is thus that a vase published by De Morgan,…

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